King of Scotland Yard | Metropolitan Police Special Branch

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's 2003, and coalition forces have taken Baghdad. A conference is held to portion out the contracts that will sustain the occupation. The United Kingdom sends a minister to negotiate their share - but the war-torn city is too dangerous for him to travel alone. Enter Carlton King - a senior protection officer with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch. With no time, 3 handguns and a broken sat-phone, Carlton and his tight-knit team must prepare the ground for the Minister's visit. Could YOU guarantee his safety? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:24.0	Incoming transmission.
0:26.0	Welcome. Welcome.
0:29.0	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:32.0	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:36.0	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:42.0	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:47.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:51.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:55.0	This is True Spies.
0:58.0	That's the first time we meet these guys. And they're driving lunders of discoveries,
1:03.0	with all bullet holes in them. So I say to them, I saw these bullet holes.
1:07.0	I said the youngster don't know these cars. So every time we come to a checkpoint,
1:11.0	sometimes they put rounds in us.
1:13.0	This is True Spies.
1:16.0	Episode 103. King of Scotland Yard.
1:25.0	We were basically in the parade room, standing there, and then there's just given out these medals and stuff.
1:33.0	It's 2007, toward the end of the war in Iraq. At a British Army base,
1:40.0	the UK Secretary of State for Defence, Des Brown, is handing out medals.
1:46.0	The desert air crackles with polite applause. But in Baghdad, peace is never guaranteed for long.
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